is a Japanese
multimedia franchise
A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program, o ...
created and developed by
Level-5. It consists of video games, manga adaptations, a
CGI anime series, and a toy line by
Takara Tomy
(trade name, trading as Takara Tomy in Asia and Tomy elsewhere) is a Japanese toy company. It was established in 1924 by Eiichirō Tomiyama as , became known for creating popular toys like the B-29 friction toy and luck-based game Pop-up Pi ...
.
Overview
''Snack World'' is a multimedia franchise created by
Level-5, following ''
Fantasy Life
is a 2012 role-playing life simulation game developed and published by Level-5 for the Nintendo 3DS. The game was originally released in Japan in 2012, with Nintendo releasing the game internationally in 2014. The game was written and produce ...
'', ''
Inazuma Eleven
is an association football
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'', ''
Little Battlers eXperience
, or simply ''LBX'', is a series of action role-playing video games created by Level-5, involving small plastic model robots known as LBXs (standing for "Little Battler eXperience") that fight on dioramas made out of cardboard, with the main ...
'', ''
Professor Layton
''Professor Layton'' is a puzzle adventure video game series and transmedia franchise developed by Level-5. The property consists primarily of seven main video games, a mobile spin-off, an animated theatrical film, and an anime television serie ...
'', and ''
Yo-kai Watch
is a Japanese role-playing video game series and associated media franchise created and developed by Level-5. The first game in the series was released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013. Three main sequels and several spinoffs, on both Nintendo a ...
''. The franchise is a "hyper casual fantasy" that is set in Snack World, a traditional fantasy world combined with convenience stores, smartphones, and other elements of the modern world. It revolves around the adventures of Chup, a wandering hero with a strong sense of justice, who is determined to get revenge against Large-Scale Leisure Facilities after it destroyed his village in response to the villagers refusing to allow eviction of the village by the former. Madly in love with King Papaya's daughter, Princess Melonia, he fulfills her selfish wishes by going on quests, accompanied by an inelegant witch, Mayonna; a muscular warrior, Béarnaise; a goblin-like creature, Gobson; and a female pig-nosed dragon, Pigsy.
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Media
Video games
''Snack World: Trejarers'' ( ''Sunakku Wārudo Torejarāzu'') was released on the Nintendo 3DS
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on August 10, 2017 in Japan.Nintendo Switch
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was launched in the country on April 12, 2018 Versions for iOS
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and Android devices were announced alongside the franchise's reveal, but have yet to be released.MMORPG
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As in role-playing games (RPGs), the player assumes the role of a Player charac ...
called ''Snack World Versus'' ( ''Seunaeg Woldeu Beoseoseu'') was released for smartphones on November 23, 2018.
On November 20, 2019, it was announced that the enhanced version of ''Trejarers'' would be released outside of Japan as ''Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl - Gold'' on February 14, 2020.
Manga
Written and illustrated by Fujiminosuke Yorozuya, a manga adaptation of ''Snack World'' was serialized in Shogakukan
is a Japanese publisher of comics, magazines, light novels, dictionaries, literature, non-fiction, home media, and other media in Japan.
Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but ...
's ''CoroCoro Comic
is a Japanese children's manga magazine published by Shogakukan. It was established in 1977 and several of its properties, like ''Doraemon'' and the ''Pokémon'' series of games, have gone on to be cultural phenomena in Japan.
The name comes fr ...
'' manga magazine between December 2016 and August 2018.
Another manga adaptation, written and illustrated by sho.t, debuted on Shōnen Sunday's ''Webry'' website under the title ''TV Animation: The Snack World'' () on April 28, 2017. It eventually began serialization in the July issue of Shogakukan's ''Shōnen Sunday Super'' manga magazine, where it ran until the magazine's April 2018 issue.
Anime
Level-5 unveiled a CGI pilot film of the anime series during their "Level-5 Vision 2015 -The Beginning-" presentation on April 7, 2015, which showcased the overall premise and the main characters.YouTube
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the following day.
The regular series later premiered on TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as is a Japanese television station that serves as the flagship of the TX Network.[Akihiro Hino
(born July 20, 1968) is a Japanese video game designer and businessman. Starting his career as a programmer in the 1990s, he later took on roles in writing, design, directing and producing. He founded Level-5 (company), Level-5 in 1998 and rema ...]
served as chief director and also handled the series composition, Takeshi Mori served as director, while Rei Kondoh composed the music. Dentsu
, simply known as , stylized as dentsu, is a Japanese international advertising and public relations joint stock company headquartered in Tokyo. Dentsu is the largest advertising agency in Japan and the fifth largest advertising agency network in ...
, OLM
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, and TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as is a Japanese television station that serves as the flagship of the TX Network.[Anime Expo
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2019. The series debuted on Cartoon Network channels in Australia
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and Southeast Asia
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in the fall of 2019. Crunchyroll
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began streaming the English dub in select Western countries on February 14, 2020.
Merchandise
The toy line by Takara Tomy
(trade name, trading as Takara Tomy in Asia and Tomy elsewhere) is a Japanese toy company. It was established in 1924 by Eiichirō Tomiyama as , became known for creating popular toys like the B-29 friction toy and luck-based game Pop-up Pi ...
consists of a series of "Jara" () and "Snacks" () that are embedded with NFC chips, which are sold in "TreJara Boxes" (). Jara are key chain weapon replicas, while Snacks are monster summon tokens. Both can interact with ''Snack World: Trejarers'' by placing them at the lower screen of the 3DS system, which grants players the same item or monsters in-game. Both can also be used in the Fairypon, a handheld device that allows users to hear special effects and play small games.[ but has not come up since its original announcement.
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Reception
During its first week, ''Snack World: Trejarers'' ranked #2 and sold 97,534 units.
Notes
References
External links
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Official anime website
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Shogakukan franchises
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